English Explanatory Dictionary

Darwin drift

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The phenomenon by which a fluid parcel is permanently displaced after the passage of a body through a fluid – the fluid being at rest far away from the body.

Word forms

Darwin drift

Etymology

Named after Sir Charles Galton Darwin, who proved a related theorem in 1953.

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